The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-08
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Thomas A. Armstrong, editor of the
National Labor Tribune, of Pittsburg
and a prominent Labor leader, died on
the lst inst, from the effects of wound
| received during the war of the rebel
lion.
Detroit had a little riot on the 1st
caused by the discharge of a number OF
employees by the City Railway Campanv
The police quejled the uprising.
A dispatch of the lst from San Fran
cisco SAYS the German government has
| practically taken possession of the Sa-
| moan Islands.
New cases of cholera continue to ap-
pear among the passengers of the Alesia
on SWlneburne Island, New York har-
| bor
| 4 posse of Texas horse thief hunters
found a party of strangers sleeping
| around a campfire in the Chickasaw Ma
ton. On being awakened two of the
party attempted to steal away but were
shot down by the visitors. 1t was found
on investigation that they were innocent
immigrants.
The Lunar Oil Works, in Brooklyn,
were damaged $4,000 by fire on the I'd.
Other losses TO the amount of $4,000
were suffered. All insured.
Fire at Mitchell, ID. T., on the 1st de-
stroyed the Dutton q Mitchell barns
and nineteen horses, including Ben Lee
the runner. Loss $50 900
AT Chicago on the I'd, John Sullivan
was annoyed by a party of boys. He
went into his house and fired both bar
res of shot gun into the party, wound
ing dozen or more.
Dan Lyons, the murderer of Jas. F.
Quinn, the athlete, has been sentenced
to be hanged Nov. 20, in New York.
A double-header freight train was
wrecked on the Lake Shore road, eighty
six miles west of Toledo, O., on the 30th.
Col. b. G. Lowe, managing editor OF
The Galveston News, was arrested on
the 30th for working on Sunday III viola
tion of law.
The Indian troubles at the San Carlos
agency are over. Eskimizin and six
other Indians have surrendered and
will be tried at Florence.
An attempt was made by masked men
to rob the Farmers Bank at Newcastle,
Pa, on the 30th. One of the robbers
was wounded by the cashier.
DR.. Maximilian Adolphe Largenbeck,
physician-in- chief of the Prussian army,
and author of several well-known medi-
cal works, is dead He was 20 year old
The president has appointed William
l.. Putnam, of Maine, and James b.
Angel, of Michigan, to act with the
secretary of state in the Canadian fish
cries dicker.
The Grand Army parade, at ST. Louis,
one of the features of the session, took
place on the 2Sth, but was only par
tlal success, owing to the rain.
The first of the great yacht races be-
tween the Scotch Thistle and Yam
kee Volunteer, which took place in
New York Bay on the 9th was won by
the Volunteer, which led the Scotch
man l9 minutes and 90 seconds. The
course was forty miles.
Thirty persons were injured by a
wreck on the Mobile road near Jackson,
Tenn, on the 9th. The accident was
caused by the breaking of a truck. No
one was killed.
The Enterprise Brewing Company, of
Philadelphia, has made an assignment.
Liabilities, S203, 900; assets, S350,000.
A paper was placed on record at
Wllkesbarre, Pa, on the 26th, by which
the Central Railroad of New Jersey is
! mortgaged to the Central Trust Com
pany Of New Rork for $50, 100000 for 100
years, at per cent.
Jennie ThOrley was arrested in Lynch
burg, Va, on the 26th, for attempting to
cash forged check for $l5 700.
Louis Hutt has declined the Chicago
county commissionership to which he
was recently elected.
Cynthia Mcdonald is under arrest in
Rochester, n. Y, on the charge of keep
ing baby farm.
James L. Cowlin, New York lace
importer, has failed, giving preferences
for $75, ,765. Liabilities Sl5U, 900.
An attempt was made to wreck the
st. Louis train on the Fitchburg road,
near North Powell, VT, by placing ties
| across the track
A fire in the Montreal Furniture Com
pany's building and adjoining structure
| in Montreal, early on the morning OF
the Goth, caused loss of $75, 600